page_title: Lorcán Ua Tuathail
section_title: Abbot of Glendalough
hierarchical_section_title: Lorcán Ua Tuathail / Abbot of Glendalough
caption_attribution_description: English: Crossing the Glendasan River near the Monastic City of Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland
context_page_description: St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail, known in English as Saint Laurence O'Toole and in French as St. Laurent d'Eu, was Archbishop of Dublin at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland. St. Lorcán played a prominent role in the Irish Church Reform Movement of the 12th century and mediated between the parties during and after the invasion. He was canonised in 1225 by Pope Honorius III.
context_section_description: In time he rose to become Abbot of Glendalough at the age of 26 in 1154. Lorcán was a religious reformer. He wished that the Irish Church would reflect the universal Church and strengthen the bonds between the Irish Church and Rome. Through his own example Lorcán brought his spiritual renewal to the church in Ireland and married the best in the Gaelic monastic movement with the best in the Frankish-European liturgical monastic movement. Abbot Lorcán began a spiritual renewal programme amongst the monks of the Abbey bringing the Gaelic Abbey of Glendalough in line with the Frankish Abbeys of Continental Europe. He invited the Canons of St. Augustine to come and assist in the reform of the Abbey and he became a member of the Augustinian Order himself.
  A great famine raged during the first four months of his administration, and brigandage beset his community, even undertaken by noblemen. In the early thirteenth-century Life of St. Lorcán, it was said that Lorcán protected his community from brigandage through his solemn prayer, fasting, and miraculous curse. He was well regarded by both the community in Glendalough and its secular neighbours for sanctity and charity to the poor.
caption: Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
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